Memorable Quotes from Nikos Poursanidis
1 quoteA Conversation Among Hikers and Young Leda
Young Joe
You guys, uh, look like you've been going a while.
Male Hiker
Yes. Since April. Amazing.
Female Hiker
Grazie. (Thanks)
Young Joe
Can I ask, how old are you?
Male Hiker
Forty-two.
Young Joe
Oh, my God. Life is so different without kids.
[''Chuckles'']
Male Hiker
I have kids. I have three kids. Twelve, nine and seven. They are in ] with their mother.
[[w:London|London]
Young Leda
So you ran away together?
Male Hiker
I guess we did.
Female Hiker
Yes, we did. Hmm. We are obliged to do so many stupid things. From childhood, even.
Young Leda
Obliged?
Female Hiker
Yes. What happened to us is the only thing that's happened to me since I was born that makes sense.
Young Leda and Female Hiker
E prima di uscire (and before going out) da questa santa porta (from this holy door) proviama un'altra volta (try it another time) su e giu per il (up and down the...) cammin...! (...path)
[''[[w:Italian|Singing in Italian; ''Leda sustains note''; ''Female hiker chuckles and clinks glass with Young Leda with Young Joe clapping'']
Female Hiker
Brava, brava! (good, good) Your Italian is so beautiful!
[''Young Leda reaches over to hug the female hiker hug and kisses her'']
Young Leda
Oh.
Female Hiker
So feminine!
Young Joe
Leda's the most extraordinary scholar of modern Italian literature.
Young Leda
Jesus, Joe. I studied translation, yeah. And comparative literature.
Female Hiker
What are you working on?
Young Leda
Uh... I'm barely working.
Young Joe
Uh, she's working on a ]
[[w:W. B. Yeats|Yeats translation]
Male Hiker
Yeats?!
Young Leda
No.
Male Hiker
In Italian? That's... that is like chocolate on chocolate!
[''gestures using Bianca's hands'']
Young Joe
Huh?
Bianca
Il gelo dell'ala sorta cade lungo il mio corpo
[''Clandestinely'']
Female Hiker
Wow. Wow.
[''Bianca plays with female hiker's hair'']
Male Hiker
What is that?
Bianca
Don't know.
Young Leda
It's Auden. "Chill of the crooked wing falls down along my body". It's ridiculous. It's just something I taught them.
Female Hiker
È bello. Brava. Wow.
[''Extends hand to Young Leda who embraces it''; ''Chuckles'']
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